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Telegraph restaurant in Logan Square will close after service on June 7 in order to change its concept, its owners said Thursday in a press release. They hope to reopen in early July, without the wine-centric restaurant's executive chef, Johnny Anderes. The owners called Anderes' departure "an amicable parting. " "They (the owners) were going in a different direction, and I decided I was going to leave,” Anderes said by phone, confirming that he has cooked his last meal at Telegraph.

North Korea is not amused by the upcoming James Franco - Seth Rogen comedy "The Interview." The regime has already condemned the film, which won't open until Oct. 10. Kim Myong-chol, executive director of the Centre for North Korea-U.S. Peace and an unofficial spokesman for the regime in Pyongyang, was dismissive in an interview with the Telegraph. "There is a special irony in this storyline as it shows the desperation of the US government and...

OSLO (Reuters) - Visitors to the high Arctic can now walk in the footsteps of great polar explorers like Roald Amundsen and send messages from the telegraph station that was first to receive news of the North Pole's conquest nearly 90 years ago. Norway has renovated Amundsen's telegraph station at Ny-Aalesund, the world's northernmost permanent settlement on the remote Svalbard archipelago, and tourists, arriving mostly on cruise ships, will from...

Telegraph restaurant in Logan Square will close after service on June 7 in order to change its concept, its owners said Thursday in a press release. They hope to reopen in early July, without the wine-centric restaurant's executive chef, Johnny Anderes. The owners called Anderes' departure "an amicable parting. " "They (the owners) were going in a different direction, and I decided I was going to leave,” Anderes said by phone, confirming that he has cooked his last meal at Telegraph.

Every time I figure that Logan Square is done with its boom of independent, unpretentious, quirkily personable restaurants, boom, another one pops up. If I were any other dining neighborhood in the city, I'd be developing a severe case of Logan Envy right about now. The latest to catch my attention is Telegraph, a 3-month-old restaurant that comes from the fertile minds of Jason Norman and Tom McDonald, who also own Webster's Wine Bar and The...

OSLO (Reuters) - Visitors to the high Arctic can now walk in the footsteps of great polar explorers like Roald Amundsen and send messages from the telegraph station that was first to receive news of the North Pole's conquest nearly 90 years ago. Norway has renovated Amundsen's telegraph station at Ny-Aalesund, the world's northernmost permanent settlement on the remote Svalbard archipelago, and tourists, arriving mostly on cruise ships, will from...

(Reuters) - Former BP chief executive Tony Hayward will be named chairman of global mining giant Glencore Xstrata Plc and will be stepping down from his position as CEO of Genel Energy , the Daily Telegraph reported. British-born Hayward, who was appointed interim chairman of Glencore Xstrata last May, was CEO of BP from 2007 to 2010 and left in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Hayward, 56, is expected to be confirmed in his new...

By Pete Sweeney SHANGHAI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - China's money market rates fell sharply on Tuesday after the central bank dumped more than 255 billion yuan ($42 billion) into the financial system, easing concerns another credit crunch was underway less than a month after a late December squeeze. The People's Bank of China (PBOC), facing signs that rising benchmark rates could spike, announced late on Monday it had provided cash directly to some banks...

His look could never be described as fashion-y or trendy. But after decades as a renowned designer, Scheerer has a sure touch with the details. In "Tom Scheerer Decorates" (The Vendome Press, $55), the rooms reveal a knowing version of traditional style that turns old school into smart and gives even the worn and well-loved a more-than-meets-the-eye sheen. How to get that old money look, minus a trust fund? We quizzed Sheerer to find out. Following are his edited comments - including a few tips to...

(Reuters) - An 8.3 billion pound ($13 billion) project to build a refinery and petrochemical plant in eastern China involving Royal Dutch Shell has been shelved after losing political support, the Telegraph newspaper reported, citing sources. The plant in the eastern city of Taizhou -- a tie-up with Chinese state-backed oil firm China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Gulf energy giant Qatar Petroleum -- would have refined 20 million tons of crude and produced 1.2...

Dennis Farina, an actor whose vowel sounds brand him as one of Chicago's own, eternally, is the whole show in writer-director Joe Maggio's drama. In this softhearted valentine to fences and grifters of a certain age, Farina plays a short-money hustler who, after a prolonged hospital stay, returns to his Chicago apartment only to find it has been leased to single mother Jenny (Jamie Anne Allman) and her preteen daughter (Meredith Droeger). With nowhere to turn -...

Every time I figure that Logan Square is done with its boom of independent, unpretentious, quirkily personable restaurants, boom, another one pops up. If I were any other dining neighborhood in the city, I'd be developing a severe case of Logan Envy right about now. The latest to catch my attention is Telegraph, a 3-month-old restaurant that comes from the fertile minds of Jason Norman and Tom McDonald, who also own Webster's Wine Bar and The...

Texas author Larry McMurtry's latest Old West novel will strike longtime McMurtry readers as a kind of farewell tour. So many historical characters who populated McMurtry's previous Old West novels resurface in "Telegraph Days" (Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $25) that this new story feels like a reunion. The main historical character in "Telegraph Days" is William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who first appeared in McMurtry's "Buffalo Girls" of 1990. Last year, McMurtry published a...